If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own! — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“How do you find happiness in a body like yours...like mine? How do you find courage to follow anything anywhere if you don't feel… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
